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The visitor is drawn into the Egyptian collection by the beautifully lit granodiorite head of Ramses II.

Design immemorial: The Nicholson Galleries, Chau Chak Wing Museum

At the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, the new Nicholson Galleries, designed by Studio Plus Three, respects and celebrates the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere.

Public / cultural
The gallery of Phoenix Central Park, designed by John Wardle Architects.

Stately pleasure dome: The interiors of Phoenix Central Park

In inner-city Sydney, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have respectively designed a gallery and performance space, each with its own language of materials and forms, that together result in a remarkable partnership of architecture and artistic fields.

Commercial
With its cryptic facade, Phoenix both responds to its urban surrounds and conceals its interior miscellany.

Miracle box: Phoenix Central Park

Behind a singular brick facade, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have brought into dialogue a labyrinthine gallery and a timber-lined performance space.

Commercial
In the renovated Esme Cahill building, the seven flat arches of the original facade (a reference to Filippo Brunelleschi’s historic foundling hospital in Florence) have been dramatically extruded to create three-dimensional forms that define a large outdoor canopy.

Joynton Avenue Creative Precinct

In this robust work of adaptive re-use, Peter Stutchbury Architecture has reached back into history to transform an ensemble of former hospital buildings in Sydney’s Green Square Town Centre into a dynamic public arts precinct.

Public / cultural
The eastern facade of the ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre fronts Tumbalong Park, its terraced landscaping disguising a major access route and loading dock.

Enriching presence: ICC Sydney

The ICC Sydney complex, designed by Hassell and Populous, houses the interrelated realms of exhibition, entertainment and conference as part of the revitalization of Sydney’s Darling Harbour.

Public / cultural
The Glebe Town Hall’s restored Victorian Free Classical facade.

Glebe Town Hall

After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.

Public / cultural
Enter the time tunnel.

Martian Embassy, Sydney

Moby Dick meets the Time Machine at LAVA’s Martian Embassy for the Sydney Story Factory.

Education, Public / cultural
External dividing walls embrace and exceed their geometric massing, spreading out to overcome the compositional coordinate of the grid.

The Concourse

An award-winning project by FJMT redefines monumentality in public architecture.

Public / cultural
Flying metal stair running between the foreshore and a concrete cliff.

Ballast Point Park

Remnants of the site’s industrial history colour McGregor Coxall and Choi Ropiha’s Sydney harbourside park.

Landscape / urban
The palimpsest of the site’s past and future is exposed to leave us to think about our treatment of heritage.

Ballast Point Park

Occupying the former Caltex site on the Birchgrove peninsula this new park is raw, challenging and wildly beautiful.

Landscape / urban
The former public school buildings are heritage listed, and have been thoughtfully incorporated into the new design.

National Centre of Indigenous Excellence

A world-class sporting and educational complex is the latest addition to Redfern’s slowly growing community facilities.

Education, Landscape / urban
View north from the corner of Harris Street and Pirrama Road. The park’s waterfront promenade is an important link in the open space that extends from Glebe to Rushcutters Bay.

Pirrama Park

Sydney’s awarded waterside park by Aspect Studios, Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects and CAB Consulting.

Landscape / urban